Mary Hopkin discography explained

Artist:Mary Hopkin
Studio:10
Live:1
Compilation:7
Ep:4
Singles:25
1Option:2
1Option Name:Other albums

This is the discography of Welsh folk singer-songwriter Mary Hopkin.

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
CAN
[2]
US
[3]
Post Card 32428
Earth Song/Ocean Song
  • Released: 1 October 1971
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
204[4]
Spirit
  • Released: 12 December 1989
  • Label: Trax Music
  • Formats: CD, LP
Valentine
  • Released: 3 May 2007
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Archival recordings from 1972 to 1980
Recollections
  • Released: 1 December 2008
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Archival recordings from 1970 to 1986
Now and Then
  • Released: 25 May 2009
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Archival recordings from 1970 to 1988
You Look Familiar
  • Released: 25 October 2010
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • With Morgan Visconti
Painting by Numbers
  • Released: 27 January 2014
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Another Road
  • Released: 31 August 2020
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
A Christmas Chorale
  • Released: 1 December 2020
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Pieces
  • Released: 1 February 2022
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Two Hearts (with Jessica Lee Morgan)
  • Released: 3 May 2023
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum details
Pleserau Serch (Plaisir d'amour)
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Odeon
  • Formats: LP
  • Japan-only release
The Best of Mary Hopkin
  • Released: 31 March 1972
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • Germany and Netherlands-only release
Those Were the Days
  • Released: 25 September 1972
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
The Welsh World of Mary Hopkin
  • Released: 24 May 1979
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Y Caneuon Cynnar – The Early Years
  • Released: December 1996
  • Label: Sain
  • Formats: CD, MC
The Mary Hopkin Collection
  • Released: 2 May 2005
  • Label: Apple
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • Japan-only limited box set release
A Portrait of Mary
  • Released: 29 August 2008
  • Label: ZYX Music/ABC Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
  • Germany-only release

Other albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[5]
Oasis
  • Released: 20 April 1984
  • Label: WEA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • As part of the short-lived group Oasis
23
Sundance
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

EPs

TitleAlbum details
Llais Swynol Mary Hopkin
  • Released: 3 May 1968
  • Label: Cambrian
  • Formats: 7"
Mary ac Edward
  • Released: June 1968
  • Label: Cambrian
  • Formats: 7"
  • With Edward M. Jones
Christmas Songs
  • Released: 1 December 2008
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Those Were the Days
  • Released: 31 August 2018
  • Label: Mary Hopkin Music
  • Formats: CD

Singles

NameYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
AUS
[6]
CAN
[7]
JPN
[8]
IRE
[9]
NL
[10] [11]
NZ
[12]
SA
[13] [14]
US
[15] [16]
US AC
[17]
"Those Were the Days"19681211113221
"Aderyn Llwyd"1969rowspan="2"
"Lontano dagli occhi"
"Prince en Avignon" (France-only release)Post Card
"Goodbye"2215131122136rowspan="7"
"Temma Harbour"197066423123394
"Knock, Knock Who's There?"2538231927
"Pleserau Serch (Plaisir d'amour)"
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"304718107711
"Think About Your Children"1951828727
"Let My Name Be Sorrow"197146
"Water, Paper & Clay"94113Earth Song/Ocean Song
"Summertime, Summertime" (as part of Hobby Horse)19725rowspan="4"
"Mary Had a Baby"
"If You Love Me (I Won't Care)"197632
"Wrap Me in Your Arms"1977
"Beyond the Fields We Know" (as the Elfland Ensemble featuring Mary Hopkin)The King of Elfland's Daughter
"What's Love" (as part of Sundance)198110rowspan="2"
"Walk Right In" (as part of Sundance)1982
"Hold Me" (as part of Oasis)1984Oasis
"I Wonder Why" (as part of Oasis)
"Ave Maria"1989Spirit
"No More War" (as Freedom Found)1990rowspan="3"
"Snowed Under"2006
"Iesu Faban"2014
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Contributions

YearTitleArtistContribution
1969Where's JackElmer BernsteinLead vocals on "Where's Jack" and "Last Moments"
1972KidnappedRoy BuddLead vocals on "For All My Days"
Peace Will ComeTom PaxtonBacking vocals on "Peace Will Come", "Out Behind the Gypsy's" and "What a Friend You Are"
Not Till TomorrowRalph McTellBacking vocals on "Zimmerman Blues"
1973MoonshineBert JanschLead vocals on "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
New Songs for Old FriendsTom PaxtonBacking vocals on "Silent Night" and "When Princes Meet"
Worlds Apart TogetherThe Sarstedt BrothersBacking vocals on "Glory, Glory"
1975Dancing on a Cold WindCarmenBacking vocals
1977LowDavid BowieBacking vocals on "Sound and Vision"
The King of Elfland's DaughterBob Johnson and Pete KnightLead vocals on "Lizazel" and "Beyond the Fields We Know"
Bad ReputationThin LizzyBacking vocals on "Dear Lord"
InventoryTony ViscontiBacking vocals
1979GhostownThe RadiatorsBacking vocals on "Walking Home Alone Again"
1981Cover PlusHazel O'ConnorAdditional backing vocals
1983I paladini – Storia d'armi e d'amoriMartin Cooper and David HughesVocals on "Main Theme"
StagesElaine PageBacking vocals on "Running Back for More", "Good Morning Starshine", "What I Did for Love" and "One Night Only"
1986ChristmasBacking vocals on 11 songs
1987Cosmic Dancer – The Greatest SongsT.Rex/Marc BolanHopkin sang backing vocals on a demo version of "Truck On (Tyke)", which was first released on this Germany-only compilation
1988Norwegian WoodR.A.M. PietschLead vocals on "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No One"[18]
The Collector – A Marc Cerrone OpéraCerroneLead vocals on "Evolution" and "The Circle"
Under Milk WoodVariousVocals
1992Back to BachJulian ColbeckHopkin co-wrote and sang "Old Faces at Heaven's Gate"
1994The BridgeDave Cousins and Brian WilloughbyBacking vocals on "Further Down the Road", "Morning Glory", "Cry No More" and "Do You Remember?"
Blade RunnerVangelisVocals on "Rachael's Song"
1996Dead CitiesThe Future Sound of London"My Kingdom" samples Hopkins' vocals on Rachael's Song"
1998Pages of LifeJon and VangelisBacking vocals on "Change We Must" (included on the US and Japan re-release of 1991 album)
Wide PrairieLinda McCartneyBacking vocals on "Love's Full Glory" (recorded in 1980)[19]
2000The Great Brain RobberyThe CrockettsAdditional vocals on "Chicken vs. Macho"
2002Live 2002Robin WilliamsHopkin re-recorded "Those Were the Days" for use in Williams' "The Grim Rapper"
2003Blue AngelStrawbsVocals on 7 songs
2005Those Were the DaysDolly PartonGuest vocals on "Those Were the Days"
2008Crystal Tips and Mighty MiceThe PhotosBacking vocals on "Time of My Life" (album originally withdrawn from release in 1981)
2009Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers – An Anthology of Welsh Music and SongVariousHopkins contributed an a cappella version of "Aderyn Pur"
2010I Am NotJessica Lee MorganCo-wrote and sang on "Here It All Comes Again"
2018Re:BootWrote and sang on a reworking of "Here It All Comes Again"
2020ForthrightBacking vocals on "Packing Up" and "The Less Said the Better" (and also co-wrote the latter)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MARY HOPKIN full Official Chart History Official Charts Company. 2021-09-22. www.officialcharts.com.
  2. Web site: RPM Top 50 Albums - May 26, 1969.
  3. Mary Hopkin. 2021-09-22. Billboard.
  4. 18 December 1971 . Bubbling Under the Top LP's . 13 May 2024 . . 49.
  5. Web site: OASIS (80'S) full Official Chart History Official Charts Company. 2021-09-22. www.officialcharts.com.
  6. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. St Ives, NSW. 141. David Kent (historian).
  7. Peak positions for Mary Hopkins' singles on the Canadian RPM 100:
  8. Book: Okamoto, Satoshi. Single Chart Book: Complete Edition 1968–2010. Oricon Entertainment. 2011. 978-4-87131-088-8. Roppongi, Tokyo. ja.
  9. Web site: The Irish Charts - All there is to know. 2021-09-22. irishcharts.ie.
  10. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl. 2021-09-22. dutchcharts.nl.
  11. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl. 2021-09-22. dutchcharts.nl.
  12. Web site: flavour of new zealand. 2021-09-22. flavourofnz.co.nz.
  13. Web site: South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (H). 2021-09-22. www.rock.co.za.
  14. Web site: South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (S). 2021-09-22. www.rock.co.za.
  15. Mary Hopkin. 2021-09-22. Billboard.
  16. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. 1982. 9780898200478. 79.
  17. Mary Hopkin. 2021-09-22. Billboard.
  18. Web site: The Mary Hopkin Friendly Society. 2021-09-22. www.maryhopkin.com.
  19. Web site: News. 2021-09-22. www.hopkin.is.nl.